Industry Engagement
Event Information
July 20-22, 2025

Check out the Industry Agenda here.

Hilton Sacramento Arden West

2200 Harvard Street

Sacramento, CA 95815  

Parking

Complimentary parking for all attendees/guests.

Industry Engagement Resources
Headshot and Bio

Registered speakers, please submit your headshot and bio to Taylor Howell here by July 7.

Agenda

Here is the entire industry agenda. If you need to see what components you are registered for, you can find your personalized agenda in the mobile app, which will be available on July 17th, or request it from Mercedes Roesch before then.

Speaker Resources

If you are registered as a roundtable or panel speaker, you can find resources and preparation materials by referring to the attachments.

AFA Plant Science Institute App

Download the app for the most up-to-date information and session details. As a reminder, the app will be available on July 17th.

Resume Directory

All attending employees from our Institute funding organizations receive access to the delegate resume directory. The directory and all future program directories will require login here.

CANCELLATION POLICY

As an engagement and funding partner of AFA, we value your support. For 28 years, partners have invested their dollars in our nonprofit programming to help guide the next generation of agriculture and food leaders. Because we are committed to being good stewards of those dollars, we have implemented a cancellation policy for 2025 AFA Leader Institutes to help direct that funding toward growing the number of students we serve each year. Our goal for this policy is to work with our partners in establishing deadlines when confirming/making changes regarding your teams’ engagement. With the rise of costs associated with in the hospitality industry (AV, caterings, lodging, etc.) this policy will help mitigate the financial risks AFA is liable for regarding cancellations that fall outside the calendar parameters set by third party vendors. Adjustments or cancellations to your registration must be made through mercedes.roesch@agfuture.org by June 25th.

June 18th: Deadline to register/confirm participation at 2024 AFA Crop Science Institute – this includes speaker roles.

June 25th: Speakers: last day to cancel team members and replace with other team members. If a team member is unable to participate in the program following this day, no other team member from company will be able to participate/replace that individual unless specified by AFA staff member. 

Upon submission of the registration, you/your organization agree to the cancellation stated above. Please contact Mercedes Roesch mercedes.roesch@agfuture.org for questions and concerns.